Metso's Outotec process for Direct Blister offers new options for using different raw materials and optimizing plant layout while minimizing investment, operating costs, and the environmental impact even further.
- Results in high recovery of copper and other valuable metals
- Ensures low investment and operating costs for smelter and acid plants
- Requires no converting process
- Gives high sulfur recovery with only one continuous high-strength SO₂ stream to the acid plant
- Improves in-plant hygiene and decreases emissions
- Results in long campaign life